Slow Sunday Stitching…the real LAST Sunday of June!

I’m having a discombobulated June! Last Saturday and Sunday, I posted that is was the last of June! I’m not sure why I was anxious for July! But I was wrong!!😑 

Last week I said my plan was to stitch on my Winter QAL because it was the week of the 25th. I did not stitch on this at all!

Instead I started a small filler pillow with a Fourth of July theme. It’s this one from Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilting that she featured last year. But I love it!

 Pop Goes the Fireworks Truck

And I didn’t even begin it until Thursday. When I finish, it will join these 3 dough bowl fillers and my Patriotic Chicken Pincushion! 

I’m linking up with Kathy at Slow Sunday Stitching. Grab your needle and thread and a project and join us!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and most of all Hopefully Grateful!

Table Scraps Challenge for June ‘24

 

It’s the end of June! I was mistaken in my RSC post last week, when I said the 22nd was the last Saturday for blue sewing. Maybe I was thinking of only myself! Haha! We have the 29th to sew blue! I’ve been sewing all the leftovers of the blue on my cutting table! Well, maybe not all the leftovers!  But blue crumb blocks were constructed! And blue 5” wide chunks were sewn together. 

The chunks were laid on 9.5” x5” pieces of batting..and loosely quilt with X’s . The navy blue star is 5”x5” and quilted to a piece of batting. Then crumb blocks cut 5x5 were layered to plain 5x5 pieces, pressed wrong sides together to make 4 pockets. Those were basted to the bottom of the 5x9.5 chunks!

Then I went looking for watermelon fabric. Because the prompt for this month was “Watermelon” and blue fabric! 🤔🙄

Whoo Hoo! I found some! 

So, I’ve been wanting a small but not too small crossbody bag to carry my cellphone, wallet, a hankie and maybe some gum or breath mints. I also have a small collapsible hair brush! You know the essentials but not all the other stuff!

What better way to use up my blue scraps! I found this Whistle Pig pattern in my pattern tote. I made the small one. It calls for a charm pack, but I cut my blue scraps and crumb blocks to 5x5. 

This is what happened!

A buttonholes was attempted…..

It’s finished! 

The back↗️

The front↗️

And the watermelon print inside! A win-win! 

Amended:Sorry for the dark photo, I’ll try for a better one this morning outside! 

I’m sharing this project at Table Scraps Challenge and at Finished or Not Friday!

PS:   You know I hate selfies,  this is what you get! 

Also: I’ll share this post at Scrap Happy Saturday! There were 2 more blue zipper blocks made as leaders and Enders while I put my bag together. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy! 

And Happy 4th of July to my friends here in the USA! 🇺🇸 

I LIKE Thursday. 6-27-25

 

As an adult, or even a retired adult, now, do you change your routine for the summer? Do you have a grandchild come stay, for instance? Do you go to family yourself? do you tend to stay up later or eat out more, or become more active/less active because of heat? How is your daily routine changed because of the change of season?

My routine doesn’t change much. I do get up earlier because the sun and the birds wake me. And I love to have coffee outside in the morning.  We probably eat out more because it’s warmer and we “go” more. Or we are doing outdoor chores and taking lunch to the park. 

Speaking of coffee outside on the porch! I was doing just that on Monday morning and had an unusual visitor! 

We have had deer, antelope, bunnies, owls and even a snake or two, but never a wild turkey! He even came up on the porch!

Nothing else happened worth taking photos. You might remember that last Saturday I mentioned Mr. Busy was flying RC airplanes. Well, he crashed one of his favorites, Big Red. No photos of that tragedy, but he has been busy repairing it. 

I’m reading this little gem! It’s been on my bookshelf for a few years. It’s a collection of short stories with a Christmas theme. 

Thanks LeeAnna for giving us this place to remember gratitude! Join us at Not Afraid of Color

Stay Busy and Stay Happy! 

Slow Sunday Sitching - Last Sunday of June!

 

Last week I told you of a plan for bringing my stitches to Finish. I still am not sure if it works. But we will see. I spent this week working on the temperature heart. You can see that the weather is warming up here. All the yellows, golds, and oranges, definitely warm colors! It might finally be summer! 

Today after enjoying CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley and my morning coffee I will get out the Winter SAL from Stitchonomy. I’m looking forward to stitching on the deck this afternoon. A glass of sun tea and stitching, what could be better! 

This is where I will be all week! 🙂 🪡 

Linking up with Kathy at Slow Sunday Stitching. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

 

Scrappy Happy Saturday- More blue!

 

 Last week I shared 4 blue split nine blocks. I made 4 more this week !

Then I mentioned I discovered I would need 120 total zipper blocks. That’s 10 blocks each month! 

Joyful of The Joyful Quilter reminded me that I don’t have to make it that big. I probably won’t either. But because we are using all the blues I made a few more and there are parts cut for a couple more this week. 

I also cobbled together a scrappy flannel backing for the Eat My Dust kids quilt. Well, it’s not quite together, but will be soon. Today, Mr Busy is flying airplanes, so I’m sewing and sewing and sewing! 

I’m going to try to quilt “Princess Jasmine” and “Eat My Dust” myself. It is supposed to be warm this week, so I can spray baste on the back deck! Then some straight line or maybe wavy line quilting! It is doable! 

Eat My Dust 

Princess Jasmine 

I’m linking up with Angela and other scrap happy sewers at ScrapHappy Saturday.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy!

I LIKE Thursday 6-20-24

 Happy First Day of Summer!

Usually it is the 21st of June. But this year the summer solstice is early. For the first time in 200 years! There is science for that! Google it if you are interested.

Actually the time is 3:50 pm CST. The day is 15 hours, 13 minutes and 41 seconds long in Chicago, but 15 hrs and 49 minutes in MST , where I live. Now the days start getting shorter and Fall is on the way!

It’s definitely Summer! 

In Wyoming the kids are fishing

and camping in the back yard!

In Vermont it’s warm enough to go paddle boarding on the lake!

Did I go to summer camp? 

Yes I did. I grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota. I went to YMCA camp when I was eight. I was terribly homesick. Now we know I was just sick. I ended up with a fever that caused a bout of nephritis. 

I went back the next year and we had good times doing arts and crafts, singing songs, splashing in the pond. I also went to Church Camp as I got older. My family camped too. Trips to Yellowstone National Park, and different places in the Black Hills. 

I’m sharing at Not Afraid of Color. Hop on over and check out everyone’s answer to LeeAnna’s prompt about summer camp! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Judy

Slow Sunday Stitching

 

Still stitching on the same things. I think I have a plan. The first week of the month I’ll work on the Woven Wreaths SAL

June is done . Here is the whole project so far!

The designs are printed and begging for thread enhancement! Next is July, the bird next to the watering can. 

The second week, I’ll concentrate on the Spring String from Lizzie Kate! And the Temperature Heart!

A through Q

The 3rd week?  Nothing is on my planner! A new “start”?  A “fully finish”?   We will see!

The last week of the month because it includes the 25th, I’ll work mostly on the Winter SAL and catch up on the Temperature Heart! 

I’m behind, I’ll show you progress next week! 🫣

Most of my stitching is done in the evenings. Except Sundays, when I try to only Slow Stitch. I’m linking up with Kathy and other stitchers at Slow Sunday Stitching.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

ScrapHappy Saturday. June 15th

 

I'm joining Angela and friends for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and spreading a bit of blue cheer. 

Last week I showed you three blue Split Nine Blocks. They are still on the design wall and have been joined by a 4th Split 9 and 4 zipper blocks. Since I am using both light and dark blues I think I will make 4 more blue zipper blocks. and four more split nines before the end of June. Hopefulluy!  Still no "set in stone" plan for how these blocks will go, but I'll need more than 4 each I'm sure. 

I spent some of this week, trying to make a backing for a small child's quilt.It will be scrappy. Come back next week to see how I did!!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

I LIKE Thursday!

It’s Thursday! Time to share the good things. LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color gives us a place to come together.

FOOD: 

Last Thursday I joined some friends for our Thursday Stitchers at our library! Our newest member is a young 30 yo. She a fabulous new stitcher, is completely computer/ tech savvy and she introduced us to Stroopwafles. This is the one I had warmed over a cup of hot coffee! So, so, yummy. Are you familiar with Stroopwafles?

When I got groceries yesterday, I was going to buy some to show you the package and to share with Mr Busy. Although he’s not a fan of caramel, he MIGHT like them. But Albertsons didn’t have any! Here is a picture from the internet. 

I stopped by a friend’s garden on Monday and wandered around her yard. Her clematis are so pretty. The growing season is short here in the high country desert, so we celebrate any and all colorful growing things.

 LeeAnna’s prompt for 6-13-24. 

Remember the last day of the school year? Clearing out your desk in elementary school, or your locker in high school...Remember how you felt and what the first days of freedom were like?

I don’t have any specific memories of the last day of school! That was a very long time ago! I loved school, so I was probably a bit sad. But looked forward to reading and the Boolmobile coming to our neighborhood.

Tell us how you spent an average childhood day when school was out... sleep late?

probably but never til noon. I’ve always been an early riser. No AC so mornings were the best times 

hang out with friends more?spend more time at the pool?

I had a job when I was 15! So not in HS. Maybe when I was in elementary school!

Stay up later watching tv shows not allowed during the year?

No. I’d rather read.  

Visiting a relative every summer?  

Every summer we, my siblings and I, spent a week at our cousin’s in a small town in eastern SD. We rode bikes, played canasta and whist on the living room floor, walked “downtown” it was 3 blocks, bought a Coke out of an old vending cooler. Fun times! 

On Saturday I started on the June motif for Woven Wreaths. I finished it

while Mr Busy was gone on Tuesday afternoon, while listening to The Women on Audible! 

Boy, is it good. I keep trying to remember what I was doing in 1967, 1968 and into 1969. The time period in the first 20 chapters. I was a young housewife and mother, and pregnant with our second baby. I was oblivious of all that was going on. I think. I knew about LBJ, the protests going on, the assassination of Martin Luther King and the Black Panthers. But I didn’t know anyone who was serving in Vietnam, male or female. 

I can’t wait to continue the listening. 

Today I’m off to gather with stitching friends. All the meeting rooms in our library are busy, so today we meet at the Golf Club. They have a small restaurant and welcome us to sit and stitch. It’s going to be warm so the course will probably be busy! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy